Usually means: Isolating or storing substances securely.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word sequestering:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequestering: Merriam-Webster
  2. sequestering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sequestering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sequestering, sequestering: Wordnik
  5. sequestering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sequestering: Wiktionary
  7. sequestering: Dictionary.com
  8. sequestering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sequestering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Sequestering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Sequestering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sequestering: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sequestering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequestering: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sequestering: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequestering: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sequestering: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sequester as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sequester)

verb:  To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
verb:  To separate in order to store.
verb:  To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
verb:  (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
verb:  (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
verb:  To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
verb:  (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
verb:  (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
verb:  (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
verb:  To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
noun:  sequestration; separation
noun:  (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
noun:  (medicine) A sequestrum.
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